about the authors

Alan Dix is Professor in the Department of Computing, Lancaster University, UK.
His interests include delays and temporal issues, interaction in mobile and ubiquitous systems, the use of formal methods in HCI, the design of cyberspace and the the way information is transforming economics and society, bits of e-learning ... and just about everything.

Janet Finlay is Professor at the School of Computing, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
Her interests include the application of machine learning and pattern recognition to HCI, design rationale, evaluation methods and interactive educational technology.

Gregory D. Abowd (pronounced AY-bowd) is Associate Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, USA.
His interests include the application of formal methods from Software Engineering to the design and analysis of interactive systems, ubiquitous computing, and future computing.

Russell Beale is lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK.
His interests include neural networks, agent technology, data-mining and highly configurable user interfaces.